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iChing 49. Conscious [R]evolution

msyemayaolokun@gmail.com (Yemaya Olokun) — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:06:41 GMT

i Ching 49.

The symbolism is of the ideograph is Lake over Fire, water over flames, the consequence is radical and permanent transformation.

I call it Conscious Revolution .

The cosmic theme of hexagram 49 of the i Ching has to do with the way the individual and collective ego proceeds in making radical, necessary and permanent or long-lasting change. Nature is constantly changing, it happens from within via feedback from without to reunite us with aspects of ourselves that have been traumatised, forcefully held apart, oppressed or suppressed, restoring us to our original strength and capabilities. A conscious revolution seeks to remove all impediments to the natural function of the ego structure, revolution is a soul-led operation. Revolutions are not a permanent state of being, they do not replace one system with another, they are a consciously initiated temporary and tumultuous voyages toward authenticity. What they produce is aways brand new, significant and long lasting. Revolutions require our complete commitment and the sacrifice of all egocentric structures, falhoods, illusions and lies which cannot exist in the frequency of truth.

Revolution occur when we hold the mirrors of our consciousness up to one another, when we call upon the wisdom within to support and allow for change in each others ego structures, changes that otherwise would seem insurmountable and indeed may go unnoticed and not be possible under any other circumstance. Relating to ourselves and others with conscious revolution, that is deliberately and appropriately, strengthens our connection to our inner guidance, slowly dissolving the collective ego’s fear of change.

With conscious revolution at play karma becomes negotiable, fate can be ended and regret extinguished.

Remember, the cosmic order of natural law, is not personal.

Disempowerment, an unconscious fear of self.

msyemayaolokun@gmail.com (Yemaya Olokun) — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 08:24:23 GMT

Cultural Disempowerment…
or F ear of your Uncultured Soul?

Yemaya Olokun

We used to practice initiation rituals, we used to ceremonially challenge our youth to foster physical and psychological resilience and come into adulthood, strong, tuned in and turned on, but the shadow journey to personal empowerment, was recently patricized into a hero’s journey of slaying the monster lurking 'out there' and His story’s ‘war on everything’. The hero’s journey is arguably our most gravitated to myth, the archetypal story of personal growth takes us to the core of our fears and doubts and urges us to muster the courage to face them head-on, to dig deep into the ground of our being and grow beyond our conditioned limitations. Who wouldn’t be drawn to that? In real life, pretty much only people who need the money, most of us choose to perform idiot rituals instead like watch action movies, have dress up parties and wear the costume of our hero, and watch sports. Still, the profound depth to which we resonate with this ‘holy grail’ story of stories (the golden chalice that Indiana Jones was desperate to possess by the way, is a patricized metaphor for Womb, the origin mythos of empowerment is in fact the story Venus) teaches us to place our trust in an outcome that is beyond our control, and to work with, rather than against, the irresistible nature of consciousness evolving through us.

Ultimately the journey reveals to us that the most terrifying confrontation we can have, is the one with ourselves, between who we are and who we are becoming, between our adapted selves and who we truly are. When reduced to its elements, disempowerment is an unconscious fear of our own potential, of embodying the power we know we have. Epic tales of overcoming adversity are all symbolic of the personal psycho-spiritual quest for evolution through significant healing, a process that requires us to master our inner resources and find out what we are made of, and why. If we become aware of how this myth is active in our own lives, we can be inspired rather than enamoured or entranced by external saviours and cease projecting our power onto them, and we can consciously accept and seek out the challenges in our lives that offer to reunite us permanently with latent super-soul-parts itching to be summoned from within us.

The reason phoenix rises from its own ashes, is because we alone are the source of our own empowerment.

The Astrological Fixed Grand Cross - Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius - Life’s Backbone

By the way, all of our stories; from pre-history, religious and all the way to Disney, are borne of our natural astrological archetypes and the timeless, pan-cultural mythos of the hero's journey represents the maturation process of a life cycle, a full trip around the natural zodiac. The climactic theme of the story is self-reliance, personal growth and transformation; the Yoga of the Taurus (fixed Earth) and Scorpio (fixed Water) axis. To complete the backbone of life that is the astrological Fixed Grand Cross, the Leo (fixed Fire) and Aquarius (fixed Air) axis, is also significantly imbedded into this ancient story. So, whilst the Taurus/Scorpio axis represents the cultivation and use of material and psycho-emotional resources, the Leo/Aquarius axis correlates to our creativity and mental stability, strategy and stamina, the parts of us that understand that if we trust our hearts and stay with the process, we will arrive exactly where and when we are meant to. Finally, the journey culminates with our return ‘home’, the image of the matured and wiser hero, the Aquarian water-bearer who pours out revitalising waters of elevated consciousness, symbolising sharing our new perspectives and experiential wisdom for the good of All.

The level of commitment, courage and fortitude it takes to bear our 'cross' is significant and touching, we respect and celebrate our heroes for this and take solace in being reminded by them of the strength of spirit that humanity shares.

The founder of Evolutionary Astrology, Jeffrey Wolf Green said: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate; our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.” Because owning and standing in our true power, takes a lot of courage and responsibility. The psychology at the core of the deliberate confusion of who we truly are, or gaslighting, robs us of the awareness of ourselves as powerful and unique creations of immutable origin, and thus creates and recreates our subconscious, pathological powerlessness, one traumatised generation after another. We are born, often surgically removed, and assigned roles and privileges based on our place of birth, heredity, race and gender and for the sake of survival and belonging, we assume the identities assigned to us, quickly abandoning any of our parts that threatens our primary care attachment and social inclusion. ’When I do this, I get rewarded, but when I do that, I get rejected, and if I get rejected, I won’t survive.’ Keep in mind that of all of the mammals on Earth, humans are born the least developed and therefore the most co-dependent. And so it is, that the unconscious seed of deathly fear of who we truly are is planted and evoked through the mythos of our hero.

Whether we abandon the soul-parts we were programmed to believe were a threat to our survival, or we suppress our emotional overwhelm due to insufficient empathy or fear of rejection, punishment or isolation, patricultural conditioning is the origin of our trauma. Nothing makes this clearer than what we have learned from the few prehistoric tribes still left on Earth, to whom the concept of trauma does not exist.

The biggest mistake ever made by humanity was to believe that if we suppress consciousness, in any form, it simply goes away. Man vs Nature is a competition that was never going to end well for man. So, what happens to blocked energy? It naturally builds, becomes distorted, exaggerated or deficient and toxic. That recurring illness or that person that makes us uncomfortable is a mirror to the parts of us that are lost, rejected or hiding in our shadow, and war, genocide, poverty, pollution and the election of ruthless dictators are simply reflections of said individual shadow-parts en masse. Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Author of Women Who Run with Wolves, and Spirit Mother to humanity, says: “It’s not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades.” So, is the state of the world our individual responsibility? To the degree that we are unconscious of our shadow, yes. Ignorance and victimhood are temporary residences, and as soon as we realise that; ‘no-one deserves that, I was an innocent victim’ or ‘I really didn’t mean to do that, but I did’, it’s our responsibility to start taking steps towards healing and improving our situation and in this way become the change we want to see in the world.

If a culture exists to condition and suppress what is natural and normalise and enforce what is not, then that culture has become distorted and harmful to life.

Breaking free from mainstream cultural possession, often results in being personally, professionally and socially ridiculed, cancelled or even scapegoated, one such individuated soul, Albert Einstein, explained why: “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.” For a time, the ancient mainstream cultural ritual of purging the psycho-emotional affect of accumulated unresolved trauma onto scapegoats before exiling or executing them, offers temporary catharsis and the illusion of social cohesion, however our continued bypassing of the origin of our chronic biopsychosocial and now biospheric dysfunction, has lead to ever worsening repetitions of our darkest times of the past. When cultural distortion becomes extreme, brutality in the form of fascism, dictators and the gruesome phenomena of war and genocide emerge, and whilst individual, family and community bonds are torn apart, in a total flip of reality, humanity's most free-thinking, truth-speaking and innovative individuals are declared mad or a danger to society. Scapegoated heroes endure the worst suffering imaginable for a human; betrayal, persecution, abandonment, exile and death, all by their own kin and collective, this is a focal archetype of our times, so as we watch western democratic culture crumble, it’s interesting to note that in the West’s own man-made religious mythology (the Holy Bible) the hero (Jesus Christ) was a scapegoat. Talk about an unresolved karmic complex!

Archetypally, wrath is employed to transform illusion, in patriarchal tales, we would all be familiar with a hero embodying a kind of ruthless savagery, to clash with unreasonably gigantic opposition. Anger, aggression and rage are primal instinctual responses that quickly enable us to assert protective boundaries, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually; who would question the use of violence in self-defence? Hanna Arendt, arguably the most important political philosopher of the twentieth century reminded us in her book, The Origins of Totalitarianism, that rage is the natural response to injustice, defining it not as irrational, but as an appropriate response to hypocrisy, stating that: “When words don't match action, it is impossible to respond in a reasoned way.” Anyone that has awakened to the realisation that they were betrayed, deceived or gaslit, knows rage.

Anger is a raw, life affirming creative force, it mobilises our defence, protection and discipline and ignites our passion for expression, adventure and joy, so why then is it arguably the most gaslit part of our nature? The unapologetic, individual, autonomous parts of self that assert; ‘I am’ are powerful and so feared by controlling cultural systems, that it is wounded early. In fact, there was a recent addition to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) called Oppositional Defiance Disorder (ODD), so according to our modern culture, basically anyone that challenges authority or opposes mainstream narratives, has a clinically mental illness. So, what happens to collective repressed rage? As mentioned earlier, consciousness, especially powerfully charged emotion, cannot simply disappear, therefore it does what it can; accumulate, distort and continually seeks to be activated and cathartically released. Repressed rage either turns in on itself causing inflammation, disease, depression, addiction, suicide, self-harm or gets projected outward and discharged onto vulnerable others; women, children, pets, employees, stigmatised minorities, just look around.

Fire pulls the spirit up from demoralisation, despair and depression, it melts the protective ice fortresses we build around our broken hearts, it lights the way and brings us together, it is the hearth at the centre of our homes and of our bellies, but Fire can also seriously injure or permanently destroy whatever it touches. When we accept our anger and take responsibility for its transformative capacity, it can be socialised, practiced and mastered, and humanity's most destructive and creative force can finally start to be used wisely. Rising up, speaking out and being willing to stand alone in the flame of our truth is terrifying, but it’s the work of everyone that wakes up from the nightmare of cultural oppression in order to help liberate others and cultivate change. It is our duty to become the hero of our story. I once had a highly traumatised Buddhist client question whether aggressive self-protection was loving, to which I reminded him; compassion has teeth.

Leaving home and learning to fend for ourselves is the first major test of our inner hero, the stakes are high and we begin applying risk, making sacrifices and accepting consequences. Integrating our hero-parts is an especially daunting undertaking for those that have both suffered severe ego violations early in life or had an overly sheltered upbringing, because when we lack a solid self-identity, we lack the will or confidence to take real risks, and therefore it’s natural that so many of us engage with our heroes on big screens, battle fields and in sporting arenas, because in this way we are able to pacify our soul’s desire for self-empowerment. Of course, most people resist the insecurity of heading off into the wilderness to find out for themselves if empowerment really does arise from the ashes of their former selves, I get it, but at some point our fears and doubts must be confronted, it is natural law and is why the Tibetan Buddhists taught us to practice dying, metaphorically, every day. Our real-life spiritual quests often begin with a major trauma like the death of a loved one, a major disillusionment or betrayal, divorce, bankruptcy, serious accident or illness, simply because sometimes only an existential cataclysm can force us to rescue ourselves.

Remember, your life is sacred

msyemayaolokun@gmail.com (Yemaya Olokun) — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 01:37:19 GMT

Remember, your life is sacred.

Yemaya, 12 October 2021

Humans are highly intelligent, relational beings, for us, healthy attachment, empathy, compassion and a sense of belonging are crucial factors for our health and wellbeing, throughout life, but particularly during infancy and childhood. In over a decade of working with clients, I have never met anyone with chronic pain, disease or mental illness, that had not experienced significant trauma, particularly in their early life. Trauma describes an inner separation , dissociation or fragmenting of our sensate experience and our cognitive reality, it is a natural intelligent survival response that enables us to postpone immense pain and stress in the moment, however this functional altered state of awareness is not meant to be permanent.

If the opposite of separation is togetherness, naturally the antidote to the dissociative or detaching phenomena of trauma, is congruent relationship, thus trauma cannot be healed alone and when left unacknowledged, it literally carries on recurring generation after generation, inherited via chemical coding within our DNA. For avoidance of doubt, the recently scientifically proven phenomena of 'Generational Trauma' and the ancient knowledge of 'Ancestral Karma' are synonymous (welcome science, so glad you could make it!)

Humans are adapted to living in relatively small multi-generational communities, growing and sharing food, marketing wares locally and contributing to a system of economy aimed at sustaining and preserving Earth’s material resources. It was once our understanding that we belonged to Earth, the Mother Goddess, and not the other way around, we also used to understand and accept that the Mother Goddess was autonomous and didn’t need us, but that we needed her, so what happened? According to Professor of European Archaeology and Indo-European Studies, Linguist and Anthropologist, Maria Gimbutas, a dramatic shift in our worldview happened.

Maria's advanced and thus ridiculed estimation, which have since been vindicated, was that our transition to patriarchal values began conditioning our psychology around 6500BCE, when Proto-Indo-European warrior tribes, who had not integrated the trauma of the apocalyptic events bookending the Younger Dryas ice age, began carrying out invasions across Europe, and the rest is literally his-story. It is very important to note that although parts of humanity were not able to process its trauma, and subsequently became barbaric in their struggle to survive, other parts were, for example recent archeological findings have revealed giant flaws in our mainstream origin stories and scientific theories, and unlike humans, Earth cannot lie. The truth of our origins and deep ancestral knowledge is emerging and being shared, it is clear that our ability to maintain our humanity and thrive rests on our ability to transfer our wisdom through the ages.

Right up until the very end of the Neolithic age, when the first invasions started marked the beginning of colonisation, we lived in peaceful, co-regulating relationship with Earth and each other. Imagine hundreds of thousands, if not millions of years, of continuous and consistent refining of our species inherent and extraordinary capacity for adaptation based on instinctual empathic resonance with both our environment and each other, thriving in intimate self-sustaining communities that were egalitarian in nature. The Greek Island of Crete was the last place in Europe to remain this way with the Minoan culture ending at around 1500BCE. So, what happens when this level of instinctual and intuitive intelligence is brutally overridden, oppressed and required to exist in great, noisy, over-populated and electrified ‘smart’ cities, where food is invented in labs or forced into being in lifeless soil with toxic chemicals and delivered to us premature and unripened from all over the world? Trauma. Numbness where there was empathy, lethargy, atrophy, pain and disease where there was vitality, vigour, passion and joy, and a gnawing, psychosomatic torment caused by the subconscious schism between all that is felt, seen and heard and the shared delusions we desperately cling to in order to avoid disillusionment. Under our current value system of ownership, control and profit, whether we observe the results of our separation from nature in terms of Earth’s ecosystems, collectively in terms of our societies and communities or individually in terms of our life-force and creativity, the devastating consequences are abundantly clear.

There’s a golden rule in the realm of rehabilitative therapies: “Move it, or lose it”, take this into account and consider that our archaic ancestors had smaller frontal lobes, but much larger brains than we do now. Has our innate extrasensory perception atrophied as we’ve adapted to value logic, rationalism and materialism over our senses? Of course our evolutionary imprinting, being far more deeply coded than our man-made customs, rules and laws, means that although our psycho-sentient abilities have been suppressed into latency over the last 12,000 or so years, like bulbs buried in soil, they live and are eager to rise up when nourished and nurtured. The human spirit is immutable.

Born the least developed of all the mammalian species on Earth, our physiology, psychology and ways of relating have necessarily evolved in close harmonic resonance with our universal laws. Without empathy, instinct and intuition, as well as a careful dedication and attention to child-rearing and mutually beneficial interpersonal relationships, our species simply would not have survived, let alone thrived, and believe it or not, we did until very recently. Through our archeological discoveries and learning from our few precious ancient tribes, with their original cosmologies and ways of life intact, we have begun the process of re-membering ourselves beyond the records of His story. We know that our ancient ancestors hardly put their babies down, the average age a child was breast-fed until was four and whenever it became known within a community that a member had experienced an overwhelming event and was showing signs of psychological distress the shamans and shamankas gathered the tribe to share the individual’s suffering and help them discharge their emotions and grieve their loss. In fact, it is still understood by our native American Brothers and Sisters that of all human experience, it’s grief that brings us closest to the 'Great Spirit’ or ‘God’, thus communion with those who are grieving is considered a scared privilege. We once naturally embodied compassion, which literally means; ‘to suffer together’, because it was well understood that the survival of a tribe relied on the health and wellbeing of each of its members.

Traumatic distress has become a chronic disorder (PTSD), illustrating our journey from resonance and response to distance, denial and distortion. What if we accorded to our inner wisdom, without delay?

From 1995-97, the world’s largest governmental study into the long-term health effects of childhood trauma was carried out in the US by the CDC and the Kaiser Permenente Institute. The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study collected data from 17,000 patients during GP visits and found that childhood trauma causes disease, addiction, shortens our life-span and that the higher a person’s ACE score, the worse their health outcomes are in adulthood. The expression of heart disease, mental illness, inflammatory and auto-immune disease, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, phobias, eating disorders, self-harm, suicide and addictions is rooted in the stress of the suppressed neuro-emotional charge of all that is unfelt, unprocessed and unexpressed.

Panic attack or unacknowledged need to stop, be and breathe?

Addiction or suppression of pain?

Nocturnal teeth grinding an unconscious attempt to complete suppressed pain?

Depression or denial of the grieving process?

‘Dark night of the soul’ a summons to evolve beyond stupid question like this?

Our reclaimed soul-parts end up serving as our most needed, extraordinary, formidable and sublime characteristics, when integrated they know exactly what to do, they resolve and complete our memories and stories, and open new psychosomatic channels for energy and expression to flow through us. Our authenticity is, without exception, necessary for our health, inner peace and creativity. The first step towards wholeness and becoming who we really are is the rejection of cultural conditioning and self-abandonment. When we commit to our individual journey of becoming, we unapologetically shape-shift, we shed the adapted skins of the past and pour our life-force into the new evolutionary karma that is seeking to be imprinted within us and contributed to our collective. And it's never too late to start.

The Fine Art of Self-disclosure

msyemayaolokun@gmail.com (Yemaya Olokun) — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 22:57:51 GMT

THE FINE ART OF SELF-DISCLOSURE

Yemaya, 16 January, 2020

Our shadow-parts are not monsters, and if you hold the belief that any part of you is bad or wrong, it’s a red flag that you are subconsciously operating from distorted cultural conditioning. The fact is that we are relational beings and our development, particularly in infancy and childhood, depends on our relationships, from the amount of care, empathy and guidance we receive from those around us to the quality of the air we breathe and food we eat. In order to belong and survive, we adapt to and develop in response to our environment, therefore although we are each a unique part of a greater biopsychosocial whole, the qualities of our environment, relationships, and the practices and customs of the cultures we are born into, dramatically shape us. Why do we reflexively blame and censor ourselves or each other for our suffering? Let’s discover how fear-based beliefs, values and choices lead to self-abandonment.

The Maya’s had a beautiful way of greeting one another, it honours the first universal law:

"In Lak'ech Ala K’in” ; "I am another you.

Close your eyes and hold the image of yourself as you where when you were a child. Sense your innocence and openness, know that we all carry this part within at all times. When our inner child attracts negative attention or the rejection of others, we swiftly adapt by censoring and submerging the inner child into our subconscious, which is why in myth, the ‘underworld’, is filled with immense power and treasure. Enlightenment, or making the subconscious conscious, emerges naturally from voluntarily relinquishing attachment to our emotional security and going beyond our fears, in this way we become ‘twice born’ or ‘reborn’, religious people call it redemption, but in any spiritual practice, our ability to rest peacefully in a knowing that is beyond our suffering, means that we are no longer bound by the fear of death, and thus to making poor choices.

Prior to the externalisation of God via organised religion, planetary cycles, Earth’s seasons, climate and weather patterns were understood as powers beyond our control, and we lived, expressed ourselves and died in accordance with them. The gift we each have to offer in life is the sharing of the magic and beauty of the dream as it moves through us, in every one of our thoughts, breaths, movements, conversations, prayers, songs and stories, t he first people of Australia lived this way, in continuous communion, with the sentient land they belonged to for around 60,000 years. Imagine the empathic intelligence of a descendent being whose nomadic people had been living in such exquisite accordance with Earth, completely surrendered within their Dreamtime for around 1200 generations.

For millions of years prior to the last few thousand, humankind lived in a continuous state of reverence and communion with the entire cosmos, an interconnected way of being that is available to anyone that chooses to recognise the value and spirit of each of their soul-parts and the same within each person, animal, plant, place or object that they interact with. For some, soul-part retrieval and integration, or ‘shadow-work’, might lead to a part of them finding the will to live, for others a part might re-member how to receive love, but for all of us, the process of personal transformation and re-empowerment requires us to let go of control, feel our way through the dark with our instincts and intuition, and trust that we will arrive exactly when and where we are meant to. Caterpillar doesn’t know they're going to dissolve into liquid and become butterflies, they instinctually find a quiet spot to surrender their entire sense of reality and allow natural magic to unfold, we, on the other hand, are conditioned to doubt our intuition and suppress our instincts, thus we’ve lost contact with the metamorphic nature of soul.

Like a ruined church in a forest being consumed by vines, it is in our design to overcome outdated structures and re-wild that which thwarts and limits the evolution of our consciousness. Yes, being human is a monumental task, but look in the mirror, evidently we were born for it! Service, prayer and meditation are all actions of surrender, but to let go of that which we base our entire mental and emotional security upon is not a daily practice for most. The greatest irony of our humanly dilemma, is that by virtue of being alive, we are already in surrender, so just get into the habit of asking yourself daily; how consciously am I holding the tension between my past and future, how steadily can I be here now, and how gracefully can I transition?

The Misunderstood Wisdom of Dissociation

Our subconscious psychophysiology hold latent imprinted memory and soul-parts that, due to trauma and conditioning, split-off from our conscious sense of self, in psychology this is called ‘dissociation’ (‘depersonalisation’ or ‘derealisation’, now too) and is considered solely as a dysfunctional disorder. Viewed from my lens, dissociation is a mostly undiscovered and misunderstood phenomena, of course it is a natural psychic response to inescapable overwhelm, but it is far more than that. I define trauma as separation of self, full-stop, therefore I place all cultural, familial, religious, social and institutional conditioning well within that definition and I sense that not doing so is why so many of us are unaware of our trauma, and therefore, our true identities.

Remember when trauma was only considered a physical event? Thankfully we've come a long way, but there's still much further to go.

The causes and effects of trauma are wide ranging and relative to many factors; age, mental-emotional capacity and conditioning, the intensity level of physical, mental and emotional overwhelm, individual sensitivity, the duration of a traumatic event, our environment, relationships and the support, if any, that we had at the time or thereafter, altogether inform the subjective experience and objective outcomes of traumatic stress. No individual or group can have a monopoly on trauma, anyone with memories or parts of who they are missing from their conscious awareness and expression, is in a state of trauma, and whether our inner separation is caused by the suppression of authentic expression (conditioning), or from an experience that shook us to the core, what happens internally is the same. The trauma response is a highly intelligent mechanism that separates and sends affected parts of us into our subconscious in order that our conscious and cognitive parts remains operational and in charge in order to survive. Survival includes doing what is necessary to maintain inclusion in our families and communities, whom without, as children, we would die. In extreme situations, the brain can powerfully immobilise us, snap-freeze a moment in time and jettison an experience or soul-part into total obscurity.

Latent memory and soul-parts can exist just below the surface within the subconscious or be totally submerged in the deep unconscious, but regardless, the point is, they cannot cease to exist.

It’s necessary to enter altered states of consciousness, or trance, in order to access our subconscious realm, this is the foundation for clinical hypnotherapy, past life regression therapy, some forms of meditation and shamanic journeying etc, and dissociation is the point of access to ‘the passage back to the place we were before’, to who we were before we were conditioned. Pink Floyd’s Hotel California is a reference to cultural conditioning, in case you didn’t realise. Now, I’m all for the safe use of therapeutic substances to induce trance and dissociation, but the fact is we naturally enter this states of open-mindful-ness everyday without even realising, we’ve just abandoned the innate, mind-boggling, tripped-out, psychedelic parts of who we are, the parts that were suppressed by organised religion and authoritarian tyranny throughout the last 2000 year age of Pisces. The natural ‘gateway drug’ that is the extraordinary and curious phenomena of dissociation, needs to be understood from a whole, holistic (and holy!) perspective, one far beyond the prison, that ‘we can check out at anytime we like, but can never leave’. Dissociation is multifaceted, multi-functional and insanely complicated, there is not one section of Body or Brain that governs it, it’s an intuitive, autonomic, psychosomatic, collaborative process, that in a very basic sense, separates our objective and subjective experiences, but not all of them, not all at once and never permanently. Dissociation is how the psyche ‘hides' from aspects of experiential reality in order to avoid melt-down, but imagination can also induce dissociation, and in safe and peaceful environments and with a relaxed mind we can easily merge so completely with sensual stimuli, thoughts or feelings, that parts of us are, in a very real way, elsewhere. Tools for therapeutic induction into alternate states of awareness can include music, chanting, drumming, a somnambulistic guiding voice, swaying objects like pendulums and finger tapping etc, anything that gently lulls the conscious mind out of focus and brings subconscious imagery to the fore. Our intuitive subconscious perception is designed to seamlessly separate and emerge into alternate, but thematically connected inner dimensions of which our experience can be subtle or feel totally real. At any time, we can begin practicing our ability to shift our consciousness and sense the interconnectedness within, with each other and with our environments, just like our pre-patricultural ancestors did.

Are we ready to stretch our minds to accord with what the mechanism of traumatic dissociation is teaching us about who we really are?

Intense trauma, out of body experiences, near death experiences and plant medicine induced psychedelic experiences are, shall we say, less subtle ways of consciously accessing our natural ability to bear witness and come to know ourselves as embodied soul, and there are many accounts of people that have had their lives completely transformed for the better through intense dissociative experiences, this is very well documented. By supporting and guiding the phenomena of trauma away from a disempowerment and victimisation towards awakening, re-empowerment and re-sacralisation, we can begin to heal. Once we have re-established that the human spirit is immutable and incorruptible, our full creative and regenerative potential can uncoil, we can return to resonance with nature once again and reclaim our significance as a living breathing part of the entire material world. The more of our memory that we are able to awaken, heal and share, the more meaningful, beautiful and ecstatic the experience of being alive becomes.

Every night when we enter the deep trance state of sleep, our psyche actively conjures images, symbols and sensations, imagined subconscious realities that are for some real-life in nature and for others abstract and fantastic, we might be in the past, present or future, but unless the date was a symbolically relevant clue in our nighttime soul-quest, who could say? Founder of psychoanalysis, Carl Jung, thought dreams happened to us, but I feel that the conspiracy of dreaming is more elaborate. I believe in a personal soul that simultaneously reckons with waking life phenomena and interfaces with the source-code of consciousness to produce our desires, and thus that dreaming is how ego is subliminally programmed, powerfully hypnotised, by soul to guide us toward expressing ourselves in accordance with our personal, generational and collective purpose. To me, all is divine, especially desire and our imagination, visions, ideas, all intuitive uploads and downloads, including our dreams, are varying conduits or channels for the same task; carrying the evolutionary current of creation through us. Now, can we please stop the conditioned scapegoating, gaslighting, invalidating, bullying, witch-hunting and assassinating our sacred and divinely inspired ego-selves? Without a sense of identity and physical boundary of self, who are we? According our dominant philosophical and cultural mindset of Materialism, we are inner resources to be moulded, hacked and commodified. Unfortunately due to the colonisation of all aspects of life by our patricultural values, our rituals for achieving ecstatic cosmo-spiritual communion have shifted from shamanic trance, fireside dance and sacred love-making, to herding ourselves into sports stadiums, get intoxicated and participating in all manner of unconscious and dangerous behaviours and rituals. I’m not judging, I’m pointing to the fact despite traumatic individual and collective separation from divine interconnectedness, our need for deep and profound intimacy, meaning and belonging remains an inborn and irresistible part of human nature, we will never cease yearning and questing to discover and express the contents of our inner realms, to merge with the wholeness of who we are.

The way to engage with our subconscious memory and soul-parts is intentionally, soberly and regularly; practice leads to fearlessness and effortlessness, or in other words freedom.

We’ve always known that we exist within a quantum unified field of potentiality, from which our manifested 3D reality arises, returns and arises again ad infinitum, but over the last 6000 or so years we’ve denied the sacredness of matter, desecrated our temples of Body and Earth and shredded the cosmic web of consciousness that we all belong to. In our efforts to become 'civilised', we’ve suppressed our nature and become neurotically obsessed with dividing and labelling the entire material world, as if when we do, we somehow possess it and not the other way around. There is no balance and harmony in this story, and all scientific and technological advancement born of a mainstream reductionist and materialist mindset, can only separate us further from empowered wholeness, which is what we've lost and unconsciously crave. Gautama Buddha said; “If you see Buddha on the road, kill him!” A powerful warning against worshipping external and therefore false idols, for he and others came to remind us of what we know to be true, that the sacred is within. The wandering Gnostic healer, Jesus, was far more gentle (and with 6 planets in Pisces, he was a sublimely gentle, yet also fearless in his faith), when he delivered the same powerful message; “The kingdom of heaven is within”. By conjuring and adopting a worldview that does not value the sacredness of nature in all forms, we’ve lost our integrity and our way, what is said and how we act, what is felt and what we believe, all rationale has, in action, become inverted and it’s no surprise that the most common astrology questions I get asked is: “What is my purpose in life?”

Our collective trauma is an amplified reflection of our failure to realise and resolve our distorted individual conditioning, it is not our fault, but resolution becomes our responsibility the moment we awaken to our mistakes. The offering of unique gifts, talents, ideas, solutions and innovation based on new perspectives and dimensions of system dynamics are often felt as an attack upon the mental-emotional security of a status quo, however acceptance, integration and evolution always prevails.

Self-reflection and the full and accurate disclosure of the past, exposes our adapted modes of behaviour, in light of which, our true nature and the truth of our reality is revealed. We avoid this process called 'disillusionment', because it marks a total collapse of the framework of our belief systems and psycho-emotional security which, from the point of view of the conditioned parts of our ego-self, is the equivalent of death. When we realise that we can no longer go back or pretend who we are in the eyes of the world, soul take our hand. I can understand how the loss of sacred connection to nature and thus faith and trust in a power beyond our control, has turned out to be so fatal to humanity, but can we stretch our consciousness to realise that Rumi, of course, was right and that the medicine is in the wound? To heal the origin of our trauma is to remember our divinity. There is also the enormous responsibility of healing, harnessing and channelling the potential being focussed through us by Cosmos, but if we can start practicing being still and acknowledging the whole of what is presented to us in any moment, especially that which is the most triggering, the process of disillusionment becomes our best friend, the kind that sees the best version of us, and holds us to it.

Reject self-abandonment & heal the scapegoat

msyemayaolokun@gmail.com (Yemaya Olokun) — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 03:43:00 GMT

REJECT SELF ABANDONMENT & HEAL THE SCAPEGOAT
Yemaya, 12 April 2020

After his death in 1979, Immanuel Velikovski’s seminal work on the subject of recurring natural catastrophes and extinction events continued to be developed, and scientifically validated, the Younger Dryas Impact Theory being our latest ancient apocalypse hypothesis. The theory is based on a vast amount of corresponding evidence from multiple scientific and academic fields, it concludes that around 12,800 years ago, Earth endured a twenty year long bombardment by debris from a giant disintegrated comet or comet tail, which led to the destabilisation of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, the entire surface area of Canada and North America, extreme volcanic and earthquake events, and the subsequent mass extinction of her megafauna. The apocalyptic event plunged the world into a one thousand year long peak ice age (the Younger Dryas period) and was followed by one of the greatest, single, overnight rises in sea level ever recorded, Melt Water Pulse B, the de-glacial flood event ended the ice age. The apocalyptic flood (’Epoch Elliptic’, an ‘epoch’ is the duration of a comet’s orbital cycle, an ‘ellipse’ is the shape of the orbit), was the cataclysmic reset of humankind depicted in hundreds of humanity’s prehistoric pan-cultural mythologies. The impact theory suggests that the civilisations that rose out of the apocalypse were assisted by survivors of previous sophisticated civilisations, what you refer to as ‘Atlantis’. Heresy! Conspiracy Theory! Pseudoscience! All of the scientists, historians, geologists, astronomers, astrologers and archeologists that support the impact theory are being subjected to the same attacks by modern religious cult of Scientism that Velikovski endured, and with the amount of discovery and disclosure taking place today, the government funded consensus science community will not be able to reject the Younger Dryas Impact Theory for much longer.

Threat and fear is naturally met by our innate survival responses, or should be. Ranging from aggression, fleeing and fawning to dissociation, our reflexive neurobiological responses vary according to the level of perceived harm, but all of our defence mechanisms have one thing in common; the instinctual protection of our most vulnerable parts; our inner and outer children. Nothing wrong with this picture, right? To be clear, when it comes to the autonomous (involuntary, unconscious) survival apparatus of the human body and brain, acts of abuse, rejection and abandonment, especially during infancy and childhood by those whom we depend upon for our survival; our families and guardians, see Family Scapegoat Abuse (FSA) , rightfully and intelligently signal the threat of certain death, which is why the defence mechanisms, complexes, habits and addictions we adopt are so stubborn and defy any amount of reason and logic.

We are primarily relational beings, the lone-wolf narrative is nonsense, from womb to tomb, e very aspect of our lives is dependent upon our relationships; within, with each other and with Earth.

When electrical storms of psycho-emotional affect are thwarted or otherwise unable to find expression or the necessary grounding and soothing in either the empathic resonance of another or in self-compassion, we reflexively and intelligently bundle and cocoon the charge of our overwhelm into closed-circuit loops and stash them away within the subconscious psyche and soft tissues of Body. The origin of C/PTSD. All suppressed consciousness, positive and negative, is embodied in this way. Pay attention to the movement, tension and shapes your body makes when you experience sensory or psychological triggers, that is specifically how and where your emotional loops were created and are subconsciously stored and reinforced, it is also the access point to healing your personal karmic patterning. This is what Rumi meant when he wrote: "The medicine is in the wound". Yet, as safe as these tucked-away soul-parts and memories are in our cellular cocoons, like all of nature, they seek expression and seen in this way it is not what happened to us that causes our suffering, but what didn’t, or hasn’t yet and our triggers are what nudge us to reclaim them. Caveat on triggers; beware of conditioned self-gaslighting, not all triggers are harmless, but all serve to reveal the subconscious contents of what we are bravely working to heal within ourselves.

“Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves. Like a sponge filled with water, anywhere the flesh is pressed, wrung, even touched lightly, a memory may flow out in a stream.” Women Who Run with the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.

The triggering truth is that, without even taking into account the scientifically proven heritability of collective and generational trauma via our DNA, on some level everyone on the planet is suffering from complex PTSD. Of course we’ve found ways to hush the pain and suffering of our bodies and endure the psychosomatic haunting of our exiled, forgotten and lonely soul-parts, nothing symbolises this self-abandonment more than our increasing rates of everything-addiction, homelessness, poverty, mass death by starvation, mental and physical illness and environmental pollution.

The colonisation and destruction of nature, ours and Earth's, has become so normalised that our collective psyche has manifested a male billionaire-owned Metaverse, an artificial man-womb, that is in reality, a mind-tomb, for us to crawl into to and die. But! Before we give up on ourselves in this epically distorted and apocalyptic Ooroburos moment by accepting a 'free' ticket to voyage into creepy Mark Zuckerberg’s virtual womb and be put out of our misery, maybe we could consider the outcome of our deathly patricultural fear and control of nature? Our most basic indicators of survival are obviously the availability of nutrition and shelter, however, touch, empathy and belonging are just as necessary, without the former we die fast, with the former, but without the latter it takes up to five slow years for a human child to die. If you have the stomach for the evidence of this, search the ‘forbidden experiment’ conducted in the 13th century by another Caesar inserting himself between Mother and Child, Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick II. You can see the pattern here, right? The unconscious part of the archetypal masculine principle who out of fear and lack wants to control life and avoid death.

Installing an archetypal patriarchal tyrant into our collective psyche as founder and CEO of the universe is literally destroying everything. It’s time to fall back and work through our issues with a professional therapist, an old priest and a young priest, a shaman, or even better, a shamanka.

Archeological evidence and our few remaining intact ancient cultures shows that we had a handle on whole and harmonious states of being for millions of years until the end of the Neolithic period. According to the late Professor Maria Gimbutas, whose life long research and dissemination on humanity’s origin story has been largely vindicated, our ancestors collaborated in the pursuit of celebrating and preserving the gift of life, not destroying it, meanwhile the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), was updated recently to include 'Oppositional Defiance Disorder’. Even through not everyone is able to stand up in defiance, my feeling is that most people on Earth are feeling opposed to His story, and would rather reclaim our true nature.

As the Universe, so the Soul

msyemayaolokun@gmail.com (Yemaya Olokun) — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 03:01:31 GMT

As Cosmos, so the Soul >>>

From its founding, NASA has been intentionally staffed and advised by occultists at the highest level, archetypal storytelling is how empire has controlled the narrative of humanity at the highest levels for millennia, and his storytellers at NASA know that, particularly since the invention of the internet, humanity have been voraciously reclaiming its astrological awareness, and becoming uncultured and empowered in the process.

I wasn't surprised in 2005 when NASA claimed ownership of the discovery of the planet Eris and downgraded both Eris and Pluto to "dwarf planets”, but NASA’s removal of the archetype of the soul (Pluto) and the shadow-worker (Eris) from His Story’s record and image of humanity’s primary solar family system, didn’t work...

Evolutionary Astrology is a soul-centred, highly sophisticated, universal and particular psychological diagnostic and integrative tool, and it’s my prediction that its founder, Jeffrey Wolf Green, will be remembered as the most influential astrologer of our time.

Astrology and our archetypes have evolved side by side with us over hundreds of thousands, if not millions of years. In the past astrology was used like a calendar, today through the paradigm of Jeffrey Wolf Green's Evolutionary Astrology, that calendar has been sharpened into a pointed psychological diagnostic and integrative tool, and necessarily so considering our divergence from our true nature. Our archetypes are the roots of the many parts of our personality that, although we have accepted the narrative of us being in opposition to nature, we cannot separate from without existing in states of trauma. Astrology has and will always point to the reality of what and who we are and remind us of the natural cycles, rhythms and harmony of life, which no matter how far we stray from, cannot cease to exist.

Evolutionary Astrology (EA) is a system of astrology specifically concerned with the psychospiritual intention for incarnating, pertaining to each individual's and generation's purpose and to the collective evolution of humanity's consciousness at large. Jeffrey Wolf Green's teachings are soul-centred and psychologically sophisticated, his astrological paradigm is both dispassionate and practical in it's methodology and highly sensitive and attuned to cultural and traumatic imprinting of past experiences that condition our reactions, responses and choices in life. Over the 25 years since its inception, it has become increasingly evident that EA ‘arrived’ specifically for our epochal times. EA does not judge or create stories about who we are based on any specific cultural mythology or spiritual teachings, it is realistic, relying on the scientific method of observation and correlation, meeting us where we are in terms of our self awareness. EA does not rely upon, but rather borrows, philosophical and astrological wisdom from both the East and West, and combines it with the personal unconscious or ‘shadow-work’ of Swiss Psychiatrist, Carl Jung.

The Wisdom of Dissociation

msyemayaolokun@gmail.com (Yemaya Olokun) — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 03:19:40 GMT

The Wisdom of Dissociation
By Yemaya Olokun, 20 April, 2021

Our subconscious psychophysiology, or shadow realms, hold imprinted memory and soul-parts that, due to emotional overload, trauma and conditioning, hide from our conscious awareness. In psychology this state is known as ‘dissociation’ (‘depersonalisation’ or ‘derealisation’, now too) and is considered a dysfunctional disorder, but like everything in His story, that is only one side of the story.

Remember when trauma was only considered a physical event? We've come a long way, but we have a lot further to go.

Because dissociation has been labeled 'bad', it is a mostly unchartered and therefore misunderstood phenomena, of course it is a natural psychic response to inescapable overwhelm, but it is far more than that. I define trauma as a separation from Self, full-stop, therefore I place all unnatural behavioural adaptation, cultural, familial, religious, social and institutional conditioning well within the definition, and I sense that not doing so is why so many of us are unaware of our trauma, and thus our hidden true identities.

No individual or group can have a monopoly on trauma.

The causes and effects of trauma are wide ranging and relative to many factors, our age, sensitivity, the type, degree of intensity and duration of a traumatic event, the environment, our mental-emotional capacity and the support, if any, that we had at the time of an event or thereafter, altogether inform the subjective experience and objective outcomes of traumatic experiencing. Anyone with memories or soul-parts missing from their conscious awareness, whether they are aware of it or not, is in a state of trauma, and regardless of whether our inner separation was caused by the suppression of our authentic expression (conditioning), or an experience that shook us to the core, what happens internally is the same.

Latent memory and soul-parts can exist just below the surface within the subconscious or be totally submerged in the deep unconscious, but regardless, the point is that they cannot cease to exist and therefore must be integrated.

The trauma response is a highly intelligent mechanism that separates and sends affected parts of us into our subconscious in order that our conscious and cognitive parts remain operational and in charge in order to increase the likelihood of survive. In infancy and childhood, survival includes doing what is necessary to maintain inclusion in our families and communities, whom without we would die. In extreme situations, our psyche can immobilise, snap-freeze and jettison a memory or natural expression into total obscurity, such highly charged, suppressed neural imprinting leads to psychological complexes including panic attacks and phobias, and wreaks havoc on our health and relationships.

It’s necessary to enter altered states of consciousness in order to access the subconscious and unconscious realms of our psyches, this is the foundation for clinical hypnotherapy, past life regression therapy, some forms of meditation and shamanic journeying etc, and dissociation is the point of access to ‘the passage back to the place we were before’. In case you didn’t realise, Pink Floyd’s Hotel California is about the trauma of cultural conditioning. Now, I’m all for the safe use of therapeutic substances to induce dissociation, but because psychoactive medicines have been practiced by humankind for hundreds of thousands if not millions of years, inducing altered states is deeply programmed and present part of who we are. The fact of the matter is that with or without medicines, we are capable of intentionally achieving 'out of body' and 'no-breath' states of meditation, and for those that don't have a dedicated meditation practice, know that you enter these states of open-mindful-ness everyday without even realising; reading, listening to music, drifting in and out of sleep and daydreaming all induce altered states. The natural gateway to psycho-emotional and spiritual healing and wholeness, that is the extraordinary and curious human phenomena of dissociation, needs to be understood from a whole, holistic and holy perspective, one far beyond the prison, that ‘we can check out at anytime we like, but never leave’.

We’ve abandoned the innate, psychedelic and multi-dimension travelling parts of who we are into the deep unconscious, because expressing them within the last five hundred, has been met with violent persecution.

Dissociation is multifaceted, multi-functional and insanely complicated, there is not one section of Body or Brain that governs it, it’s an intuitive, autonomic, psychosomatic, collaborative process, that in a very basic sense, separates our objective and subjective experiences, but not all of them, not all at once and never permanently. Dissociation is how the psyche avoids melt-down, but gently lulled imagery, such as that which happens when reading or during guided meditation and hypnotherapy, also induces dissociation, and in safe and peaceful environments we can easily merge so completely with the subconscious, that parts of us are, in a very real way, elsewhere. Tools for therapeutic induction into alternate states of awareness can include music, chanting, drumming, a somnambulistic guiding voice, swaying objects like pendulums and finger tapping etc, anything that softens the focus of the conscious mind and brings intuitive imagery to the fore. The phenomena of our perception is such that it can effortlessly separate and emerge in alternate dimensions within which our experience can be subtle or deep...ever dreamt about a story or a film you watched before bed?

Are we ready to stretch our minds to accord with what trauma and dissociation is teaching us about who we really are?

Intense trauma, out of body experiences, near death experiences and plant medicine induced psychedelic trips are, shall we say, less subtle ways of accessing our innate ability to self-heal, however there are many accounts of people who have had their lives completely transformed for the better after experiencing such intense dissociative experiences, this is very well documented. By guiding the narratives around dissociation and trauma away from disempowerment and victimisation and instead towards awakening, re-sacralisation and re-empowerment, I believe we can heal ourselves and our world. When we re-establish the bonds within and between each other and re-member that our spirit is immutable and incorruptible, our regenerative and creative potential uncoils, and the more of our memory that we are able to awaken, heal and share, the more meaningful, beautiful and ecstatic the experience of being alive becomes.

Neoshamanism: Clinical & Past Life Hypnotherapy

msyemayaolokun@gmail.com (Yemaya Olokun) — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 01:12:02 GMT

Neoshamanism: Hypnotherapy
Yemaya

Whether your subconscious memory takes us to an earlier time in your current life or to a past life is irrelevant, accessing and resolving the origin of a matter is the aim, and as such I work with people from all walks of life with varying beliefs and cultural backgrounds.

Our conscious mind processes 50 bits of information a second and handles our voluntary biological and psychological functions such as wilful movement and logical or critical thought, whereas our subconscious mind processes 11 million bits of information a second and governs all memory and autonomic functions such as habitual or reflexive patterns of action and conditioned thoughts and beliefs. The entire memory bank of every felt and witnessed moment of our embodied life experience, from our fears and traumas to our instinctual preferences, authentic expressions, creative impulses, desires and emotional responses, exist within the sensate-intuitive realm of the subconscious body-mind complex.

The power of the subconscious human psyche cannot be overstated, major surgeries are regularly carried out using hypnotherapy on patients that are allergic to anaesthetics.

In a safe environment and with the right mindset, anyone can enter the altered states of awareness necessary for self-healing through regression and hypnotherapy, in fact we access relaxed and somnambulant states of mind every day in many ways, such as watching screens, being absorbed in a book, music or repetitive action, taking in art or the beauty of nature and drifting in and out of sleep.

Hypnotherapy sessions focus upon a specific matter and intended outcome, when the client is truly ready, an experienced therapist will get to the heart of a matter quickly. Throughout the co-journeying experience, both therapist and client remain in total control of their thoughts, actions and words. It is not a prerequisite to have prior experience for these therapies to deliver curative effects, very often within a much shorter timeframe than traditional talk-based therapies.

We are far more complex than the roles assigned to us and the labels we identify with, in fact many parts exist within us, each simultaneously having a singular experience and multiple dynamic relationships with their counterparts. To make matters even more complicated, when we come into relationship with our external world, our internal world adjusts our expression accordingly. Most people have parts that function below the level of conscious awareness, meaning expression is being subconsciously suppressed or limited to reflexive neurological patterns from the past, either way cause the inner separation of trauma. We don’t identify with our subconscious parts, rather we sense them in our body and often react irrationally when they are activated, sometimes overwhelmingly, other times more subtly and persistently, a feeling that something is lacking that we can’t put our finger on it.

By gaining access to the origins of our compulsive thoughts, behaviours and irrational responses to life, hypnotherapy effects permanent healing and change. Defence mechanisms, highly sophisticated avoidance tactics and addictions that feel impossible to resist, are all symptomatic indicators of soul-parts seeking integration. Some common symptoms and underlaying complexes related to past conditioning or trauma that hypnotherapy helps uncover and integrate are:

Suppressed trauma memory; grief, anger

Harmful coping patterns; addictions, dependencies, self-harm, eating disorders;

Toxic relationships; abuse/narcissism/codependency

Guilt, shame and rage complexes;

Anxiety, depression, PTSD and CPTSD;

Low self-worth, self-confidence, self-censoring;

Chronic pain, recurring illness and phobias.

Creative blocks, fear of speaking/vulnerability/intimacy

Our ancestors have cultivated, engaged in and facilitated regression practices for hundreds of thousands if not millions of years. All modern therapies involving the induced altered states of awareness are underpinned by ancient pan-cultural, indigenous, natural law based shamanic practices and no, shamanism is not a religious or a belief system. Whereas religion has to do with worship, shamanism, the healing arm of Animism, is centred around cultivating and maintaining relationship within ourselves, each other, nature, Earth and the entire cosmos. And we don’t need a belief system to convince us that grass is green and the sky is blue, nature is self-evident. As above so below, as within, so without, animism is a cosmology based on values that are in accordance with universal laws and our ancestors engaged in trace ritual and ceremony for the purposes of maintaining sacred connection to the wisdom of nature and to understand themselves as part of a greater whole. By the time our patriarchal worldview took hold, what little remained of our ancient practices, including astrology, was chased underground (the subconscious) and it wasn’t until the early 1900’s that notable psychiatrists Sigmund Freud, Karl Gustav Jung and a number of other regression therapists re-membered and re-minded us that we can heal all manner of suffering by recalling and completing unexpressed and unresolved subconscious memory and integrating and developing the parts of ourselves that we lose touch with or repress due to trauma.

Thanks to modern scientific research and technologies we have been able to piece together our archaic past and the revival of our ancestral knowledge is rapidly accelerating our spiritual re-awakening. The significance and intelligence of our species intuitive psychosomatic complex is beginning to be seen once more as a microcosm, a micro-cosmos, and this transpersonal perspective is available to us collectively for the first time in many thousands of years.

Hypnotherapy uses meditation and imagination to bridge the conscious mind, the subconscious and the deeper unconscious mind, sessions take place in a peaceful setting with clear, focussed intention and openness as the ground from which our own intuitive insight can emerge. The physical environment is so crucial and I began online sessions with great trepidation, but I have found that being able to guide others in the comfort of their own homes is in very many ways more supportive for deep journeying i.e. not having to physically travel to appointments and emotionally acclimate, re-centre and transition ones energy after a session is of huge benefit, especially for highly sensitive people. I often prescribe specific daily practices for clients to use to continue their work between session, also journaling and intuitively moving the Body directly afterwards, greatly promotes the integration of new insight. Allowing our curiosity to be led by the intuition, shifts us from the higher analytical brainwave frequencies of Alpha (8-14HZ) and into the creative and fertile frequency called Theta (4-8HZ). We can practice this any time, in fact we enter trance states of theta every day when we read, watch screens, listen to music, meditate or engage in physical movement especially repetitive ones like running, swimming, Yoga or Qigong. In Qigong the Theta state is called Wu Wei; a transcendental state of being 'in the zone’, at one with what we are doing. I’m going to offer a warning here, to be mindful regarding the environment, people, information, food or substances that you choose to enter into a theta states with.

Whenever our logical, labelling and analysing mind is set aside and we are in a state of resting, soft focus, our nine times more inclusive subconsciousness mind is in the drivers seat.

During a session, client and therapist explore beyond mental constructs and defence mechanisms and welcome the emergence of the emotional memory that is unconsciously informing negative thought and behavioural patterns. With empathy, understanding, practice and patience, a sense of authority, authenticity and aliveness replaces feelings of disempowerment, we can go beyond the limitations of all that has conditioned us in the past. This is true healing and transformation. These modalities are so accorded to your needs that depending on where you are on your healing journey, sometimes acknowledgment alone can have a permanent curative effect, sometimes catharsis is needed as the pain of old wounds is witnessed and released by Body and Psyche, whatever is required, bringing peace to the origins to the wounds of our past leads to regeneration and vitality and the ability to experience deeper intimacy in all of our relationships.

Battle flags in black holes: Patriarchy in the Age of Eris

msyemayaolokun@gmail.com (Yemaya Olokun) — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 03:07:39 GMT

Staking battle flags in black holes: Patriarchy in the Age of Eris

Yemaya, 12 February 2020

In human-centred astrology, our planets represent the primary functions of our psychology, it is not that our planets 'do' anything to us, but rather that we inherently carry their characteristics and functional properties within us, for example our bodies naturally wake with the rising Sun, and a woman's 28 day menstrual cycle aligns with the phases of Moon. Both our inner planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Sun and Moon) correlated to our personal psychology and our outer planets (Jupiter outward) correlated to the collective psychology of humanity, are available for our accordance, but due to the outer planets distance from Earth and their lengthy orbits the sense of their presence in our day to day experience is far more subtle than the inner planets. Essentially a lot of what we are physically connected to and have the ability to energetically tune into is unconscious, but through discovering and intentionally practicing our innate capacities, as the highly intelligent and evolving creatures that we are, to resonate with the intelligence of the greater cosmos that we are literally a part of, the scope of our evolutionary potential is profound.

Pyramid or smartphone? Is who we are in this moment the apex of our species?

Eris, the most light-reflective and massive planet in our solar system, is correlated to our unconscious collective psychological function that seeks revelation, specifically through the initially uncomfortable process of the repeated triggering of underlaying psychological complexes. Eris was discovered in the far-out scattered disk region in 2006, right before the global financial crisis of 2008, coincidence? Upon discovery, the effort made by NASA to minimise Eris to a dwarf planet, and simultaneously downgrade Pluto to prove their point, was in perfect alignment with the archetype; the minimisation of both planets caused heated debate, drawing public attention to what had historically been clandestine special operations of censorship and control. The function of Eris is to remove our defences and rat-out what is hidden in our shadows, and NASA, part of the American military industrial complex, with more than a few skeletons in their closet, tried to exclude Eris before settling to devalue the arrival of Their consciousness into our collective psyche. Triggered much? For avoidance of doubt, this public and scientific dispute revealed he extent of our over-culture's narrative control and use of archetypal story for cultural engineering, we see this in cinemas all the time, but this time they were caught with their hand in the cookie-jar, meaning their intention is wilful and conscious at the highest level of power and at the deepest level of our collective consciousness.

Nature seeks expression, meaning and the evolution of our consciousness follows. A worldview and way of life enforced by man-made narratives designed to predict and control natural expression, has predictably and epically failed.

Downgrading Pluto and Eris from planets to ‘dwarf’ planets is no small tweak, it means that they have both officially been excluded from the family of 'official' planets that form our solar system, thus no institutional educational literature, published since 2006 includes either. Like anything or anyone that doesn’t fit our patricultural narrative, they have been cancelled. You’d think delusion has peaked when you believe you can hide planets, but Bill Gates and NASA are now planning to hide the Sun. So, is our archetypal Erisian consciousness, the one that sets fires to flush out our fear, a cause for censorship or celebration? You decide:

In a nutshell, Eris is the archetype of soul retrieval, the inner saviour of our scapegoated parts. Eris reveals the most hidden parts of us who are continually betrayed and abandoned when we fail to recognise that the scapegoat ‘out there’, is in fact the scapegoat within. Today, many have awakened to the psychology of co-dependency and narcissistic abuse, but our unconscious religio-cultural conditioning and unintegrated Erisian tendency is to remain in a cycle of blame, continually reproducing and sacrificing others rather than turning inward, self-reflecting and being brutally honest with ourselves. The force of Their triggering and provocation is relative to our resistance to the power of what is attempting be become awakened within and expressed through us, put it this way, I have never met a person that was scapegoated as a child that didn’t have a certain fire in the eye and working with many such kindred souls, I have witnessed that fire grow and transform unimaginable suffering. If you care for truth and are willing to seek and share it more than you are afraid of the personal consequences of doing so, know that Eris has arrived in your heart, feed Them with fierce compassion and unapologetic right action, stand tall and reframe the narrative, like I have done here with Homer's 'terrifying' or 'empowering' depiction of Eris, you decide:

“...she who is only a little thing at the first…grows until she strides upon the Earth with her head striking Heaven”.